bootstrap: marking gnulib-copied/generated files as such

2006-09-07 Thread Jim Meyering
I've just made this change. It doesn't handle bourne shell scripts or ABOUT-NLS, but it's enough for now. 2006-09-08 Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * bootstrap (cp_mark_as_generated): New function. (slurp): Use it to prepend editor hints and a warning that the file we'

Re: Bug in fold tool (version: 5.97)

2006-09-07 Thread Henrik Holst
Paul Eggert wrote: > Henrik Holst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/5365 > > I can't reproduce that problem with coreutils 6.1 on Debian stable > x86. I see that Tobias Powalowski cannot reproduce it on his system > either. It's possible that there is a bug in core

Re: basename for directories containing space

2006-09-07 Thread Eric Blake
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] NZ PostSep06]$ echo `pwd` > /home/corrin/NZ PostSep06 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] NZ PostSep06]$ basename `pwd` > NZ You didn't quote this correctly, so you are effectively doing: basename "/home/corrin/NZ" "PostSep06" and since PostSep06 is not a suffix of NZ, basename is correctly r

Re: bug in gnu grep -o

2006-09-07 Thread Eric Blake
> $ echo foobar | grep -o '^.' > f > o > o > b > a > r > > There is a beginning-of-line anchor '^' so grep should only match 'f', > not the rest. > > $ grep --version > grep (GNU grep) 2.5.1 Thanks for the report, but this is the bug-coreutils list, so you will not get any patches by reporting

basename for directories containing space

2006-09-07 Thread Corrin Lakeland
[EMAIL PROTECTED] NZ PostSep06]$ echo `pwd` /home/corrin/NZ PostSep06 [EMAIL PROTECTED] NZ PostSep06]$ basename `pwd` NZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] NZ PostSep06]$ basename --version basename (GNU coreutils) 5.2.1 Written by FIXME unknown. Surely the correct output is "NZ PostSep06"? I can get the output I

bug in gnu grep -o

2006-09-07 Thread David Emerson
$ echo foobar | grep -o '^.' f o o b a r There is a beginning-of-line anchor '^' so grep should only match 'f', not the rest. $ grep --version grep (GNU grep) 2.5.1 A few other test cases: $ echo foobar | grep -o '^[fb]' # this one works properly f $ echo foobar | grep -o '^[fb]..' # this o

Re: failed test on Gentoo

2006-09-07 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 07 September 2006 14:53, Gurganus, Brant L wrote: > I am pretty sure I tried it with FEATURES="-sandbox -usersandbox" and it > still failed in the same place meaning it is not related to the sandbox. > I could be wrong though. a quick check on ppc64 shows it passes for me outside of sa

RE: failed test on Gentoo

2006-09-07 Thread Gurganus, Brant L
I am pretty sure I tried it with FEATURES="-sandbox -usersandbox" and it still failed in the same place meaning it is not related to the sandbox. I could be wrong though. -Original Message- From: Mike Frysinger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 2:20 PM To: bug-c

Re: failed test on Gentoo

2006-09-07 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 07 September 2006 11:42, Paul Eggert wrote: > "Gurganus, Brant L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > ginstall: cannot create directory `d2/..': File exists > > Thanks for the bug report. What is the output of the following commands? i'm pretty sure this is a Gentoo specific issue (we bui

coreutils-6.1: build problem reports

2006-09-07 Thread Nelson H. F. Beebe
Here is a summary of build and/or test problems noted for coreutils-6.1 on various systems: Machinetype:Sun W40z (4 CPUs, 2400 MHz AMD64 Opteron, 8GB RAM); GNU/Linux Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 4 Remote gcc version: gcc

Re: failed test on Gentoo

2006-09-07 Thread Paul Eggert
"Gurganus, Brant L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Could you clarify, are you wanting the output of the 6.1 version or the > installed version (5.97 I think)? I'd prefer 6.1, thanks. ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu

RE: failed test on Gentoo

2006-09-07 Thread Gurganus, Brant L
Could you clarify, are you wanting the output of the 6.1 version or the installed version (5.97 I think)? It also might be a while since I reinstalled Windows, so it'll be a while until I get around to reinstalling Gentoo. -Original Message- From: Paul Eggert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sen

Re: Bug in fold tool (version: 5.97)

2006-09-07 Thread Paul Eggert
Henrik Holst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/5365 I can't reproduce that problem with coreutils 6.1 on Debian stable x86. I see that Tobias Powalowski cannot reproduce it on his system either. It's possible that there is a bug in coreutils, but we'll need more info

Re: failed test on Gentoo

2006-09-07 Thread Paul Eggert
"Gurganus, Brant L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ginstall: cannot create directory `d2/..': File exists Thanks for the bug report. What is the output of the following commands? rm -fr d2 strace src/ginstall -d d2/.. On my Debian stable version running coreutils 6.1, the last few lines look li

Re: Bug - report

2006-09-07 Thread Philip Rowlands
Hello, You sent mail to bug-sh-utils, which has been deprecated for some time. bug-coreutils is now the appropriate address for coreutils bug reports. On Thu, 7 Sep 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The command, who when used with any two arguments like who am am... displays the result of who a

Re: Bug - report

2006-09-07 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello! On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 07:28:28PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The command, who > when used with any two arguments like > who am am... > displays the result of who am i. #v+ $ who --help Usage: who [OPTION]... [ FILE | ARG1 ARG2 ] [...] -monly hostname and user ass

Bug - report

2006-09-07 Thread d . baskaran
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Re: tail broken on fedora core 5

2006-09-07 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Bob Kaehms on 9/5/2006 2:34 PM: > You guys probably already know, but the +n option no longer works in FC5. > Not sure if this is a Fedora issue, or a gnu issue, but thought I'd pass it > along. This is documented in NEWS, ever since core